Door-hook.



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DOOR HOOK APPLICATION FILED 001'. 24, 1901.

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ALBERT E. STRANG, OF CANTON, OHIO.

DOOR-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 718,169, dated January13, 1903.

Application filed October 24, 1901. Serial No. 79,854. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, ALBERT E.STRANG,a citizen of the United States,residing at Canton, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Door-Hooks, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to door-hooks, and more especially to guards forhooks designed for fastening screen and other doors.

The object of the invention is to provide a guard for a hook of thischaracter which shall be simple of construction, durable in use,comparatively inexpensive of production, easily applied, and which whenattached to a door and the hook is not in use will cause the hook tohang down vertically parallel with the face of the door and prevent itfrom being caught and held in a cocked position, as is frequently thecase in the ordinary hook commonly employed, which latter not only marsthe door-frame, but ofttimes snags and tears the garments of personspassing through the door.

A further object of the invention is to provide a guard of thischaracter which will inclose and protect the screw-eye from injury,while permitting of the free movementof the hook in engaging it with anddisengaging it from the eye or staple carried by the doorframe.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of partswhich will be hereinafter more fully described,and particularly pointedout in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a horizontal section of aportion of a door and door-frame, illustrating the application of theinvention and showing the hook engaged with an eye or staple on thedoor-frame. Fig. 2 is a detail View showing the position the hookassumes when disengaged from the eye or staple. Fig. 3 is a sideelevation of the hook and screw-eye and a section through the guard,showing the relation of parts when assembled.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, 1 designates a fragmentof the swinging stile or edge of a screen-door, and2 designates thedoor-frame.

3 designates the guard, which is of hemispherical form and is providedwith an inclosed socket 4, formed integral with and projecting inwardlyfrom the outer face of the guard and provided in its rear wall with anopening 5 for the passage of the screw-threaded shank of the screw-eye6. The hook 7 is provided, as usual, with an eyes at its inner,end,which is jointed to the eye portion of the screw-eye in theordinary manner.

To assemble the parts, the open rear portion of the guard is brought tobear against the door and the screw-eye inserted within the socketthereof, with the screw-threaded shank projecting through the opening inthe wall of the socket, and then said shank is screwed into the door inthe usual manner until the eye portion of the screw-eye occupies saidsocket and bears against the rear wall thereof, thereby clamping theguard firmly in place. When the parts are thus connected up, the eyeportion of the screweye is inclosed within the socket, which guards itagainst injury and projects only a sufficient distance beyond the frontof the guard to allow a free movement of the hook in connecting it withand disconnecting it from the eye or staple 6 on the door-frame. By thisconstruction the hook is prevented by the front wall of the guard fromtilting upwardly and rearwardly to a position beyond the perpendicular,and thus becoming cooked or standing out, so as to interfere with theclosing of the door and snagging and tearing the garments of personspassing through the door. Hence the hook is always caused to dropdownwardly, so as to lie parallel with the face of the door.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the construction, mode of operation, andadvantages of the invention will be understood without requiring a moreextended explanation.

Changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of constructionmay be made within the scope of the invention without departing from thespirit or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof.

I claim- In a guard for door-hooks, the combination, with a door; of ahemispherical shell having its open rear portion bearing upon the door,said shell being stamped up from a single piece of metal and having asocket extending inwardly into the chamber of the shell to near the edgeof the shell and in close proximity to the surface of the door, ascrew-eye having its shank passing through the rear wall of the socketand entering the door and its eye portion substantially inclosed withinthe socket and clamping the shell against the door, and a hook jointedto the eye portion of the screw-eye, the socket and eye portion 1 of thescrew-eye being of such relative size that the hook normally hangspendent in a vertical plane and bears upon the front wall of the shell,whereby it is supported in such position, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

ALBERT E. STRANG;

Witnesses:

OHAs. R. MILLER, CHAS. M. BALL.

